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By *ebelRoad OP Man
over a year ago
Cork / Wexford |
Need my fellow Fabbers advice.
I have been messaging someone on both here and KiK.
She suggested we should swap phone numbers to talk properly.
We have swapped pictures, all very clean so far.
I had a really bad experience with swapping numbers before and it has made me stop giving my number out.
Am I being too cautious?
Thanks in advance |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"Need my fellow Fabbers advice.
I have been messaging someone on both here and KiK.
She suggested we should swap phone numbers to talk properly.
We have swapped pictures, all very clean so far.
I had a really bad experience with swapping numbers before and it has made me stop giving my number out.
Am I being too cautious?
Thanks in advance "
Is your phone number attached to your social media via whatsapp or insta....do whatever you're comfortable with |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Easy to explain. If she puts notifications on KiK is no different to messaging. No need if you've had a bad experience.
Maybe even tell her the bad experience. If she understands all good. If she doesn't then bullet dodged. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
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Hey OP. I don't give my number unless I've met someone & see if I'm gonna meet them again, not just on fab but when I've had profiles on online dating apps.
Had a bad experience myself with a guy from POF and the hassle of changing my number & changing my Facebook profile was just meh. |
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"Hey OP. I don't give my number unless I've met someone & see if I'm gonna meet them again, not just on fab but when I've had profiles on online dating apps.
Had a bad experience myself with a guy from POF and the hassle of changing my number & changing my Facebook profile was just meh. "
It's sickening that some think that this kind of behavior is acceptable  |
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By *lameBoyMan
over a year ago
Enfield & Dublin |
I have chatted with two ladies on fab for considerable time and we exchanged numbers. Ladies I have met with exchanged numbers. To date I have had no issues with it. If you trust each other enough to meet and have sex then exchanging numbers shouldn’t be an issue.
If you’re unsure about giving her your number and she wants to voice chat, get hers and call her from a withheld number. |
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By *ay MMan
over a year ago
Cavan |
"If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
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wow!!!!
Morale of the story nothing is safe, least of all your privacy |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
I don't give out my number on here unless it's someone I've met and trust .Apart from that I won't give out my number and I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of getting a phone just for here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don't let others pressure you into something you aren't comfortable with. I've never given my phone number to another fabber, nor do I see the need for a separate phone, kik does just fine, if people don't like it, too bad. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
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"If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
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One of the reasons so many people have changed their Facebook name to something generic or use their middle name rather than surname. |
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"If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
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You can get messenger without having a Facebook account.
Buy a cheap phone just for fab contacts then you won't have to worry then. Simple really |
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"Need my fellow Fabbers advice.
I have been messaging someone on both here and KiK.
She suggested we should swap phone numbers to talk properly.
We have swapped pictures, all very clean so far.
I had a really bad experience with swapping numbers before and it has made me stop giving my number out.
Am I being too cautious?
Thanks in advance "
Get a cheap spare phone and swap easy way of checking she is a female too lol |
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If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have chatted with two ladies on fab for considerable time and we exchanged numbers. Ladies I have met with exchanged numbers. To date I have had no issues with it. If you trust each other enough to meet and have sex then exchanging numbers shouldn’t be an issue.
If you’re unsure about giving her your number and she wants to voice chat, get hers and call her from a withheld number. "
Wise words  |
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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago
Galway |
"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring. "
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring.
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me."
Same for me |
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"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring.
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me.
Same for me "
It wasn't so much insisting on a phone number as 'look, before we meet, I like to speak to a guy on the phone to know he's legit and get an idea of what he's like.' Which I can understand being a sensible precaution for a woman before she passes out her address to him. |
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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago
Galway |
"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring.
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me.
Same for me
It wasn't so much insisting on a phone number as 'look, before we meet, I like to speak to a guy on the phone to know he's legit and get an idea of what he's like.' Which I can understand being a sensible precaution for a woman before she passes out her address to him. "
Can’t say I get that either…anyone can sound perfectly sane on a phone call |
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Why would anyone who is so safety conscious stall over giving out a phone number but yet hand out their address?
Whether they can accommodate or not I wouldn't be going to anyone's home until we had met a few times and were more comfortable in each others company. |
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"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring.
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me.
Same for me
It wasn't so much insisting on a phone number as 'look, before we meet, I like to speak to a guy on the phone to know he's legit and get an idea of what he's like.' Which I can understand being a sensible precaution for a woman before she passes out her address to him.
Can’t say I get that either…anyone can sound perfectly sane on a phone call"
I guess some people rely on their gut but yeah, I know what you mean. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Could always go the virtual number route, then you're not giving out your number but they can ring you using the number you give unless you wish contact to end. Always ring them back from withheld number.
Text messages can't use these services though |
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By *yesgreenMan
over a year ago
north and south |
"Could always go the virtual number route, then you're not giving out your number but they can ring you using the number you give unless you wish contact to end. Always ring them back from withheld number.
Text messages can't use these services though"
kik |
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By *DSGCouple
over a year ago
That place in |
I was told to remove my phone number from Facebook from the start as it links to most of soical media these days
We have given out our number and so far so good, we never had a problem yet! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you're questioning if you should give your number then don't otherwise I don't think you would be questioning it
I was the same, used to give my number out willy-nilly, had to learn the hard way
Now unless it's someone I've chatted to for a long time, get on with, who are just a load of craic and aren't INSISTING on number swaps but more of a casual ask to swap then I'd be ok with it but if I'm still a but iffy for whatever reason I'd ask for meet in public place first as you get more of a feeling for someone in person than over the web, kik and so on. I listen to my gut these days, used to listen to the the lil guy but most of that guys advice sucks......ironically |
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By *ynchro85Man
over a year ago
morecabe congleton |
"If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
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I did not know that !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone (which is pretty much everyone nowadays), that means that you have linked your phone number to Facebook.
#1 Just enter someone's phone number into Facebook login and hit "I Forgot My Password" .
Then "Is this your profile?" will pop up. Showing you the Facebook profile of whoever owns that number.
#2 Save a person's phone number to your phone, check their WhatsApp profile username, and 9 times out of 10, its the same as their Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram.
#3 Save their number to your Google contacts and the next day, they will show up as a recommended contact on Linkdin. You can pull their Gmail from their Linkdin bio and use it to find pretty much any social media platform they are registered with that email address.
... or so I am led to believe. Give out your phone number at your own risk.
I did not know that !! "
Yeah suprising how many times I've had a phone number added to my contacts and shortly after that person will become a recommended friend..
I'll like to keep my privates private thank you very much.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring.
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me."
I agree with all of this. It's a fairly good way to gauge it however for me it would send alarm bells ringing too.
Speaking from experience I've actually received a couple of numbers and the offer to use them was put to me. I could have chosen then to hide mine. I've also once sent my number to someone who wasn't on Kik but I never asked for a number and was totally fine if the number was withheld also. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If the person has been on the site for some time and is well-verified, you're probably safe enough. I have met with women from the site who have insisted on a phone chat before meeting and because they were well-established and verified, I felt safe enough in doing so.
If it's a reasonably new profile, with no verifications and you aren't at the stage of an imminent meet, yet they're insisting on a phone call because of some unspecified difficulty with Kik, my own alarm bells would probably begin to ring.
Anyone, well verified or not, insisting on a phone number would have every single alarm bell ringing for me.
I agree with all of this. It's a fairly good way to gauge it however for me it would send alarm bells ringing too.
Speaking from experience I've actually received a couple of numbers and the offer to use them was put to me. I could have chosen then to hide mine. I've also once sent my number to someone who wasn't on Kik but I never asked for a number and was totally fine if the number was withheld also."
Worse.. getting a stalker that ends with them blowing up your phone every 5 min looking for a meet. Hey I'm game but jeez not every few min.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Need my fellow Fabbers advice.
I have been messaging someone on both here and KiK.
She suggested we should swap phone numbers to talk properly.
We have swapped pictures, all very clean so far.
I had a really bad experience with swapping numbers before and it has made me stop giving my number out.
Am I being too cautious?
Thanks in advance "
If something doesn't feel right it more than likely isn't. Go with your instinct.
I gave my number before to a guy who I had met...normal behaviour yes. Just so we could talk etc...before the meet. He always and every had his number hidden  & it's not like I can't be trusted or whatever.
He used to ring me unannounced several times a day on his unknown number. I couldn't even block him  ... He turned into a stalker also as in calling to my house at anytime of day unannounced. I stupidly let him drive me home one day & that's how he knows where I live...Long Story...Too long to write it all here...It's mini-book material tbh. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Need my fellow Fabbers advice.
I have been messaging someone on both here and KiK.
She suggested we should swap phone numbers to talk properly.
We have swapped pictures, all very clean so far.
I had a really bad experience with swapping numbers before and it has made me stop giving my number out.
Am I being too cautious?
Thanks in advance
If something doesn't feel right it more than likely isn't. Go with your instinct.
I gave my number before to a guy who I had met...normal behaviour yes. Just so we could talk etc...before the meet. He always and every had his number hidden & it's not like I can't be trusted or whatever.
He used to ring me unannounced several times a day on his unknown number. I couldn't even block him ... He turned into a stalker also as in calling to my house at anytime of day unannounced. I stupidly let him drive me home one day & that's how he knows where I live...Long Story...Too long to write it all here...It's mini-book material tbh."
Answer the call and inform him that you are handing your phone to the Gardai and they will be dealing with the matter from now on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Need my fellow Fabbers advice.
I have been messaging someone on both here and KiK.
She suggested we should swap phone numbers to talk properly.
We have swapped pictures, all very clean so far.
I had a really bad experience with swapping numbers before and it has made me stop giving my number out.
Am I being too cautious?
Thanks in advance
If something doesn't feel right it more than likely isn't. Go with your instinct.
I gave my number before to a guy who I had met...normal behaviour yes. Just so we could talk etc...before the meet. He always and every had his number hidden & it's not like I can't be trusted or whatever.
He used to ring me unannounced several times a day on his unknown number. I couldn't even block him ... He turned into a stalker also as in calling to my house at anytime of day unannounced. I stupidly let him drive me home one day & that's how he knows where I live...Long Story...Too long to write it all here...It's mini-book material tbh.
Answer the call and inform him that you are handing your phone to the Gardai and they will be dealing with the matter from now on."
Thanks...that's a good idea actually... I did tell him if he didn't stop calling to my house unannounced I'd have to tell the Gardai...he has stopped that for now...but I just had an unknown number ringing my phone 5 mins after I logged in here...it's defo him. |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"My phone allows me to block unknown numbers completely so it doesn't ring
I'm on Android
Really, Brill. I must find that setting on my phone now "
Bring up your keypad
Click on the 3 dots on top right of screen to bring up settings
Block numbers is the first setting |
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By *oo32Man
over a year ago
tipperary |
"My phone allows me to block unknown numbers completely so it doesn't ring
I'm on Android
Really, Brill. I must find that setting on my phone now "
Contact list....click on your 3 dots...down to settings...
There ya go |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My phone allows me to block unknown numbers completely so it doesn't ring
I'm on Android
Really, Brill. I must find that setting on my phone now
Contact list....click on your 3 dots...down to settings...
There ya go"
Thanks I got it on my Optimiser app. I've blocked all withheld/unknown numbers. |
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